Trudeau lived his early life in Ottawa and later Montreal upon his father's retirement from politics in 1984, where he was a classmate of Sophie Grégoire.

[4] When talking about her sons each having distinctly different personalities in an interview in 1977, Margaret Trudeau said, "Justin, 6, is a prince — a very good little boy.

At the time, he had been working for about a year at Red Mountain Resort and living in Rossland, British Columbia.

[7][8] The lake's high elevation and limited days of open waters each year prevented divers from completing the search.

[9][10][11] The Trudeau family called off the recovery and later built a chalet nearby as a memorial to their youngest son.